Bill Lee, 77, sits on the porch of his Mill Street home, which is a short walk from the barbershop he owned before retiring in late 2012.

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It was a tale of two Bills this past weekend as the Ross County NAACP honored a pair of former entrepreneurs who share a first name and decades of friendship.

Bill Brandon, a retired electrician, and Bill Lee, a retired barber, were recognized Saturday during a banquet at the Christopher Conference Center.

Brandon, 85, and Lee, 77, have known each other since the 1950s, when they would hang out at the roller rinks in Chillicothe and Washington Court House. Twenty years ago this month, Brandon was the first customer at Lee's barbershop on Mill Street. They remain good friends. In fact, Lee said he ...